First off congrats Grandpa
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Originally posted by DeltAlum
My thoughts on this thread have absolutely nothing to do with changing anyone's drinking habits. Dry housing won't do that. I think it was James who correctly pointed out that this is totally a liability issue. But that's important. Chapters can't survive without liability insurance. People are bringing suits against everyone these days. As an alumni volunteer, that scares me.
On the other hand, I don't think that you could successfully argue that enforced dry housing causes more people to drink. I think the bridge goes all the way. It just may not reach the intended destination.
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I think the "not reaching the intended destination" is probably more what I wanted to say.
See, maybe I'm expecting too much, but as much as it has been publicized and touted, I WOULD expect dry housing to do more than lessen liability and keep the house neat. I'd hope it would show people you can have fun without alcohol - show that Greeks do not drink 24/7 - and make people think more about alcohol before they get poop-faced. In my mind, dry housing should be just ONE PART of getting undergraduates to live in a healthy way, realize their limits and use alcohol correctly. If you don't do that, then that says to me that you don't give a crap about the people involved, just the threat of lawsuits.
But in this case, all it seems to be doing is taking the party from point A to point B. I don't know much about IU's dry housing initiative, but I would hope to heaven that it included some sort of alcohol education and alternatives with it. If all they did was pass this "dry Greek system" policy without much thought, believing it would win them all sorts of good publicity, then that lack of vision has certainly come back to bite them in the ass. As they say, "don't let your mouth write a check your body can't cash."
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